My Chemical Romance, Gnarls Barkley, The Shins, Jet, others signed up for Deck The Hall Ball

The End reeled in quite an impressive lineup for its 15th Deck The Hall Ball. The lineup includes, Snow Patrol, Pete Yorn, Angels and Airwaves, Taking Back Sunday, Jet, The Shins, My Chemical Romance and Gnarls Barkley. The show is at KeyArena Dec. 7.

I’m really excited about the lineup this year. Gnarls Barkley is known to put on some killer shows and it’ll be cool to hear new Shins songs considering they only performed one new song during their set at Sasquatch! earlier this year.

The only thing that has me scratching my head is who’s going to headline? My Chemical Romance, which isn’t really an End band in my opinion, has a spectacular new album out (read former Seattleite and current LA Times pop music critic Ann Powers’ review here. ) and their live show is awesome. I’m actually pretty obsessed with that record at the moment. But in a festival show, MCR will probably only get 45-60 minutes. That’s too bad.

The Shins have a massive following, but last time they played Deck The Hall Ball their set sounded awful at KeyArena and they sped through their set to play as many songs as possible, ruining the atmospheric ambiance of their music. And then of course there is the “it” factor with Gnarls Barkley, which is the hot band of the moment. Any one of these three bands could easily headline.

Well Deck The Hall Ball organizers, you have quite a tough task in front of you and you have until Dec. 7 to figure out the proper headliner. Get it right.

Tickets for Deck The Hall Ball cost $37.50 and go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. at all Ticketmaster locations. End Mail subscribers can purchase theirs a la the magic presale beginning tomorrow.